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DVD and Streaming History No Longer Available through Netflix’s APIhttps://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/dvd-and-streaming-history-no-longer-available-through-netflixs-api/
https://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/dvd-and-streaming-history-no-longer-available-through-netflixs-api/#commentsSat, 22 Sep 2012 21:05:23 +0000http://feedflix.wordpress.com/?p=856Effective 15th September 2012, Netflix will no longer provide a user’s DVD or Streaming history via their API.

What this means is that FeedFliks will no longer be able to tell you how long you’ve held onto DVDs or send you email alerts when you’ve held on to them for too long. This also means that going forward we won’t be able to calculate an average cost/movie for you. Your Streaming History page will also no longer be updated.

Note that this is not a Premium vs Free issue – no third party apps will have access to your DVD or Streaming histories. Unfortunately this is a decision Netflix made and is not going to change.

Other features will continue to be available: both Queues will continue to be refreshed, you can still sign up for Alerts (and have them added to your Instant Queue when the title becomes available). You’ll also get alerts when titles are about to expire from your Instant Queue.

]]>https://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/dvd-and-streaming-history-no-longer-available-through-netflixs-api/feed/6feedfliksExpiring Dates for Streaming Titles No Longer Available through Netflix’s APIhttps://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/expiring-dates-for-streaming-titles-no-longer-available-through-netflixs-api/
https://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/expiring-dates-for-streaming-titles-no-longer-available-through-netflixs-api/#commentsTue, 15 May 2012 05:25:57 +0000http://feedflix.wordpress.com/?p=848Netflix has recently made a change to their API specifically around the expiry dates for their streaming catalog. Until now, the API provided the exact expiry dates but Netflix has now made the decision to *not* provide the exact expiry dates unless a title is expiring in the next two weeks. For all other titles, Netflix will show a far-out, made-up date irrespective of whether it expires 3 weeks out or 6 months out. On FeedFliks, we are representing this far-out date with 1st Jan 2025 which explains why 95% of your Instant Queue titles seem to expire on that exact date.

We hear all of you writing in and expressing frustration at this loss of information that was previously available. We’ve checked with the API folks and they have communicated that this is a done decision for now. We’re as disappointed as you all but this is now beyond our availability to influence. We’ve tried.

To get in touch with Netflix’s Customer Service, please call 866-716-0414.

Streaming Alerts have long been one of the most-used and loved features on FeedFliks. For those new to FeedFliks, Streaming Alerts allow you to sign up for an email from us on the day your favorite title becomes available on Streaming (we’ll also add it to your Instant Queue if you wanted to).

One limitation was that Streaming Alerts were restricted to only those titles for which we knew were streaming soon. But lots of users are now on Streaming only plans and want to get notified as soon as their favorite titles are available to stream – even if no date has been announced yet!

Starting today, you can get a Streaming Alert for any title at all in the Netflix Catalog. The day it becomes available to stream, we’ll email you. If you want us to add it to your Instant Queue, just say so! To get a streaming alert, just click on the calendar icon next to the title box art. The screenshot illustrates what it looks like, for example, on the New DVD Release page but this calendar icon will appear next to all titles.

Streaming Alerts are a Premium feature – sign up and you won’t be disappointed!

To help you quickly keep track of all the nominations (and eventually, the winners), FeedFliks has a one-pager for all the major 2012 Academy Awards. Here’s a snippet:

Are you ready with your predictions?

]]>https://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/the-2012-academy-awards/feed/1feedfliks2012 OscarsFeedFliks Introduces Streaming Central for Canadahttps://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/feedfliks-introduces-streaming-central-for-canada/
https://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/feedfliks-introduces-streaming-central-for-canada/#commentsTue, 14 Feb 2012 17:43:25 +0000http://feedflix.wordpress.com/?p=810Canada is Netflix’s biggest market after the US and Netflix boasts over a million Canadian Netflixers already. To help Canadian Netflixers sort through what currently available, coming soon and expiring soon from Netflix Streaming, FeedFliks is now happy to announce the availability of Streaming Central for Canada!

3) Search by Award – select “Oscar” and see just the titles that have gotten Oscar nods

4) When searching for Streaming-only titles, you can additionally specify HD-only, Closed-captioned-only and also limit to titles that have only recently become available on Netflix Streaming

5) Search by Movies only/TV only/Both – tons of you have written in asking for a way to eliminate TV shows from results. Well, now you can!

6) Keyword search: just enter a keyword and FeedFliks will search multiple fields for that query: entering ‘George’ for example will find movies where the director’s name contains George or someone in the cast is called George or if the movie title has the word ‘george’ in it etc.

]]>https://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/netflix-dvd-releases-for-7th-feb-2012/feed/0feedfliksFeedFliks: now with new and improved Actor and Director Pageshttps://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/feedfliks-now-with-new-and-improved-actor-and-director-pages/
https://feedflix.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/feedfliks-now-with-new-and-improved-actor-and-director-pages/#respondMon, 30 Jan 2012 18:16:33 +0000http://feedflix.wordpress.com/?p=776On FeedFliks, you can now sort an actor or director’s work by a variety of ways: top rated, most recent, by genre – and yes, by what’s streamable!